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Beat Surrender Top Ten of ‘11

By Simon, on December 16th, 2011

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Band of Holy Joy How To Kill A Butterfly

Band of Holy Joy – A Clear Night, a Shooting Star, a Song for Boo by BeatSurrender

Wonderfully crafted the songs preach with a desolate beauty leaving behind plenty of food-for-thought 

I’ve listened and enjoyed some great music this year but none better than this album from Band Of Holy Joy which just stopped me in my tracks, but it doesn’t end with the musical brilliance as the CD release is packaged beautifully too in a book format with wonderful original artwork by Inga Tillere, for your chance to win a copy drop us an Email with the subject line BOHJ and I’ll pick a random entry and put a copy of the CD in the post to you (overseas entries welcome)

2 Zoe Muth & Lost High Rollers Starlight Hotel

Muth’s vocal is just perfect, sad, sincere, achingly beautiful 

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Video Lounge

By Simon, on August 19th, 2011

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Rod Picott - Welding Burns

By Simon, on August 1st, 2011

Out earlier this year in the US, Rod Picott’s latest album Welding Burns is an independent release that’s available in the UK from today and Picott is touring over here in October to promote it, the dates are below and there’s a Bob Harris Country session planned too which I’m very much looking forward to. I mentioned in a recent post Picott’s contribution to the great Amanda Shires album Carrying Lightning and on this his seventh solo release she joins up with him again adding vocals and fiddle to the album which was recorded at True Tone Studios, Nashville TN with David Henry (Cowboy Junkies, REM) co-producing with Picott, it also features slide and electric guitar from the Will Kimbrough, a fellow who has a habit of turning up on quality albums time and time again.

Picott is the son of a welder and former Marine and grew up in a . . . → Read More: Rod Picott – Welding Burns

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Amanda Shires – Carrying Lightning

By Simon, on June 16th, 2011

I’m a little late in mentioning this album but couldn’t let it pass without a few words of praise as it’s fast becoming one of my favourite albums of the year so far, one of those rare albums where there’s not a weak track Carry Lightning showcases Shires talents as both writer and musician, a dozen tracks it kicks of with Swimmer…. and ends with an instrumental version of the opener, in-between there are nine further Shire’s originals and a cover of Barbara Keith’s Detroit or Buffalo, Neil Casal who guests on the album playing guitar and adding harmony vocals recorded his own version of this track on his album Fade Away Diamond Time, other contributors include Will Kimbrough (electric guitar) who pops up regularly on quality albums and Rod Picott who co-produced the album with Shires – she returns the favour by playing and singing on Picott’s solo album Welding . . . → Read More: Amanda Shires – Carrying Lightning

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